Nearly half a century ago, Carmen Ignarra arrived to Mexico after leaving behind her Cuban homeland, in the hopes of becoming the greatest Caribbean actress in Hollywood. But the American dream tur- ned out to be more difficult than she’d thought, and her brief initial success was followed by a slow, painful decline. Today, at 80, the woman who was once Cuba’s most beautiful actress lives totally forgotten in an old mansion in Monterrey. There she survives thanks to her tenants—strange men who she is constantly blaming for mysterious thefts and disappearances. Laura, a young woman also from the Caribbean, arrives at the mansion to work as an assistant in cleaning and housekeeping. With her she brings a video camera and the secret intention of making a documentary about the diva. Together they talk about the past, about wasted talent and lost loves.

A long distance call from a long lost lover makes her reminisce about their common past. She remembe...

In Kanpur, India, an electricity thief provides Robin Hood style services to the poor in the face of...

Beth B takes us into the 21st century underground and reveals a secret world where cutting-edge perf...

Su Friedrich's personal essay charting the destruction of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. After living in th...

Proving that India's heroes aren't just in Bollywood, Blood Relative follows the remarkable story of...

A man contracts a sexually transmitted disease, but is reluctant to seek medical help - until a no-n...

Mutantes sheds light on a feminism that was little talked about in France. This documentary comprise...

Libby Spears goes undercover in southeast Asia to infiltrate the vast network of people involved in ...
The last piece of the trilogy, following 'Katatsumori' and 'See Heaven', filming her grandma and her...

Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of h...

The sequel to Naomi Kawase's Katasumori. The film revisits Kawase’s relationship with her "grandma",...

An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life an...

In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteach...

The film evolves around questions of identity, popular memory and culture. While focusing on aspects...

New York City's various bridges transform into an urban jungle (jazz version) or an alien landscape ...
He is an Aluku man, one of the five tribes of Maroons who survives in the forest during 400 years af...

Director Liu Jiayin casts her parents and herself as fictionalized members of a Beijing family that ...

A diary film about Kawase's relationship with her grandma and her search for her father, whom she ha...

Essay documentary explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture....

With his soaring falsetto and magnetic yet understated stage presence, Jimmy Somerville burst onto t...